"I had to go through a lot, had to lose things,” said Williams. “It was hard."

But just how many have made it to a shelter in the DFW area?

According to the American Red Cross, the grand total is nearly two thousand, with the Dallas convention center housing the most, at over one thousand evacuees.

"These are individuals that got caught in floods around Beaumont and Port Arthur. Most of them have lost their homes or their apartments and they are coming in families. It’s heartbreaking to see what they've been through,” said Dallas Mayor, Mike Rawlings.

Of those thousands, some were a little more fragile than others. Ten babies were evacuated from the Driscoll Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.